BoisZoi

BoisZoi, 4 months ago

Yep; William Shatner.

BoisZoi, 4 months ago

If you don’t need the “advanced” features of VLC’s desktop app, the UWP app is beautiful and modern looking, while also providing that "opens ALL the formats" VLC UX.

BoisZoi, 4 months ago

lets out sulfur farts all day

BoisZoi, 4 months ago

I’ve been buying physical media (DVDs, BluRay) and ripping them with MakeMKV + Encoding them with HandBrake and use my cloud storage + a mix of Kodi and Infuse Pro to stream my shows.

I’ll rip a thousand DVDs before I let this company physical media die!

BoisZoi, 4 months ago

My conservative father listens to some dude called “Creed Fisher”; the dude literally sings about people who don’t have good ol’ fashion American Patronism and that he’ll “kick their ass” for not having it. It is so cringy.

FWIW: I don’t identify with conservatives or liberals.

BoisZoi, 4 months ago

I mean… you bought a Roku.

Of all the streaming devices you can purchase, I’d argue Roku is the most privacy invasive: <a href="">https://foundation.mozilla.org/en/privacynotincluded/roku-streaming-sticks/</a>

BoisZoi, 4 months ago (edited 4 months ago)

I have heard about putting my roku on another submet but i don’t know how to do this. Any thoughts 🤔

I believe that would rely on the modem settings… If you buy a router (eero, Google WiFi, etc.) and connect it to the Ethernet port, you could create a separate network and your modem would see your router as a single device. I have T-Mobile Internet but don’t trust them with my data, so in conjunction with the above, I have all my network traffic pointed towards AdGuard DNS (Personal Plan)(they have a free version that works well, but you can’t customize it).

BoisZoi, 4 months ago

Changing DNS isn’t the same thing as a VPN.

Thank you for explaining this to those who don’t know.

Perhaps I should have used the word(s) point to instead of traffic.

BoisZoi, 4 months ago

No worries.

It’s a shame because if you look at the history of Roku, it was founded with technology and ease of access in mind. Unfortunately, like many things, advertising and invading a users privacy is the “best” route for these companies to become profitable.

Google is a perfect example of this, especially after Eric Schmidt and the introduction of Google accounts.

BoisZoi, 4 months ago

And when the next spill happens

And when the next spill happens

BoisZoi, 4 months ago

Ah, beat me to it!

BoisZoi, 4 months ago

https://lemmy.ml/pictrs/image/ecd91b18-8955-4513-ba8d-2b58d5985c28.jpeg

BoisZoi, 4 months ago

I found this out last month from my stepmother who is a pharmacist… I stopped it a few months prior to learning this, but knowing this now, I’ll use an alternative like Cetirizine/Zyrtec.

BoisZoi, 4 months ago

Opera back in 2000s.

Compressing webpages, built in mail, built in BitTorrent client, tab stacking, “fit to width” which would remove horizontal scrollbars, page tiling, mouse gestures, rocker gestures, I think it even had a calendar.

It’s a shame the direction Opera took after Jon left, but thankfully he started Vivaldi which feels like the spiritual successor.

BoisZoi, 4 months ago

Thank god! I’ve been a fan since it was announced way back when. For Christmas this year, my sister-in-law bought me “The World of Orville” and the physical collection of the comics, as she knew I bought the digital ones.

I very much look forward to another season!

BoisZoi, 4 months ago

Rosario + Vampire

Perfect mix of romance and comedy; Fruits Basket (remake; follows manga) is also a great one!

BoisZoi, 4 months ago

The process of trying to separate from Google is tough for sure. I believe Louis Rossmann said “it like quitting heroin cold turkey; you can’t, it’s something you have to lean yourself off of slowly”. In my case, Google Photos, Docs and Voice are the most difficult to switch from, but in the case of Google Photos and Docs, I have multiple backups in the event something happens to my account.

BoisZoi, 4 months ago

Firefox Relay and email relaying/forwarding services are so useful, not just from a privacy point of view, but also being in control of accounts simply by turning off forwarding for a specific email, or just deleting the forwarding email all together. I use iCloud’s Hide My Email.

BoisZoi, 4 months ago

More power to you man!

BoisZoi, 4 months ago

Same, but with Microsoft’s Image Creator. At least for me, I like using it to create pixel art for my own personal GitHub repos.

BoisZoi, 4 months ago

Nice! On iOS/iPadOS, I use “StopTheMadness Pro” to set up redirects, and it makes watching YouTube, TikTok, etc. videos that family sends to me so much more bearable!

BoisZoi, 4 months ago

It definitely is! It has helped me so much with the clusterfuck that is REGEX and figuring out what I did wrong 🙃

BoisZoi, 4 months ago

Don’t forget to check your Amazon Alexa privacy settings to disable personalized ads, and for using your Alexa data for ads. Likewise, you can have it to where while Amazon keeps a log of what is said, it won’t save voice recordings.

BoisZoi, 4 months ago

If you subscribe to RSS feeds that sometimes due ads in the form of articles (looking at you daringfireball); services like SiftRSS let you use Regex to filter out titles that match (i.e., sponsor, sponsorship) so you only get organic content.